Hi all, for those who might recognise me ive changed my system. And thanks to all who gave advise over the past couple of months. So my new question is i now have a a64 setup using nvidia tune in windows i let it do some graphic performance tuning to see what the program would recommend. Its raised my AGP frequence to 81Mhz. Everything runs purfectly geeting 10000 in 3d mark 03, 3900 in mark 05 and about 63000 in aquamark. Couldnt be more please with gaming, amazing quality in half life2 highest settings on filtering etc...all round amazing no stutters. But my question is ive always been advised not to touch the agp frequency. But everything seems more than fine. Is there any major worries i should have with the high agp settings???? Temps are about 71-75 under load 55-60 idle (But they always were even in my old xp system, so no change really) SETUP: MSi neo 2 platimum nforce 3 AMD64 3200 Winne at 2240mhz (224x10) Mushkin 1 gig 2.3.3.9 @ 1:1 1T XFX 6600Gt @ 550 gpu 1180 mem APG 81mhz 80 gig SATA 80 gig IDE (See to be overclocked getting a copper sink some artic silver and DDR500 ram. PS for those of you who remember i sold my old Barton mobile system on ebay and made some good money so was lucky enough to more or less swap to a 64 system without too much cost. Lucky me ASUS A7V600 1024 PC 3200 Mushkin cl2 blue ddr AGP XFX 6600GT oc 560 mhz gpu 1180 mhz ram XP BARTON-M 2500 @ 212x11.5=2438 mhz 80 GIG SATA+80 gig IDE 550W PSU

Sorry to double post but i forgot a major thing. The msi board has a pci lock and it shows in ntune that it still is running @ 33 mhz even though agp is at 81 mhz How can this be i though agp was always twice pci speed. ASUS A7V600 1024 PC 3200 Mushkin cl2 blue ddr AGP XFX 6600GT oc 560 mhz gpu 1180 mhz ram XP BARTON-M 2500 @ 212x11.5=2438 mhz 80 GIG SATA+80 gig IDE 550W PSU

"i though agp was always twice pci speed" It is, unless your board provides the option to clock the two separately? Did you run tests with AGP at 66MHz & then at 81MHz & compare the results? Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz 768MB PC3200 Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit Gamer Edition WinME/WinXP Pro

Jam, Yeah there has been a deffinate increase in the frame rate benchmarks they may only be 1 or 2 frames but visually they seem to make a big difference with smoothness in 3d mark 05 especially with the return to proxycon test. from memory the bench has increased by 200 in 3d mark. But is that high frequency really worth the 200 points if its gonna reduce the life on my card ?? ASUS A7V600 1024 PC 3200 Mushkin cl2 blue ddr AGP XFX 6600GT oc 560 mhz gpu 1180 mhz ram XP BARTON-M 2500 @ 212x11.5=2438 mhz 80 GIG SATA+80 gig IDE 550W PSU